Canada Can Say No: The Link between Legalized Brothels and Trafficking in Persons
Amidst the push to legalize brothels before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Krista Bones takes a look at what that would really mean for the men, women and children involved.
21 Things You Can Do Today to End Sex Trafficking
Michelle Miller, an activist and executive director of REED, shares her list of action steps for anyone wanting to do something about sex trafficking today.
Behind Chocolate’s Bars
An estimated 12,000 children have been trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s number one cocoa producer. Isn’t it about time chocolate came without the price tag of children sold into slavery?
Rice for Dinner: Raising Compassionate, Globally-minded Children
Once a week, Maria Shriver’s mom, Eunice Kennedy Shriver served her children a meal consisting of only a bowl of rice. Ellie Hagey, a mother and grandmother, takes a look at what it takes to raise children who want to make a difference in the world.
China Traffickers Push Drugs on North Korean Defector Women
Human traffickers in China who hope to sell women fleeing North Korea have been known to push addictive drugs on their victims to make them submissive, defectors and experts say.
Butternut Squash Lasagna
Next time you’re in the mood for lasagna, why not try this vegetarian take on the classic? Prepare the butternut squash sauce in advance and you’ll have dinner on the table in no time.
vol. 4 no. 1: mobilize
Human Trafficking 101
Shirley Love Rayburn introduces us to Human Trafficking, the horror of modern-day slavery. “The key statistic that compelled me to action was that 80 percent of people trafficked are women; 50 percent are children. Those numbers woke me up and I was hungry to learn more.”
Mobilizing Women
There’s a Chinese proverb that says, “When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” Idelette McVicker encourages us to wake up and take on the mountains of our world. There’s something you can do.
Mission to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
What is it like to live in one of Canada’s poorest neighbourhoods? To experience homelessness, hunger and poverty? To be a woman caught in the cycle of prostitution and addiction? Invest a week of your life to live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and experience the challenging circumstances these women face daily.
Be Careful What You Wish For
“Perhaps Afghanistan is best appreciated from afar, where the daily danger and discomfort are magically transformed into romance and adventure,” writes Jean MacKenzie in Kabul. “This is the explanation I have devised for my increasingly contradictory relationship with this fascinating and maddening country.”
Orphans Face Uncertain Future
Politicians in Iraq are calling for better care and support for the growing number of orphans. Most orphans are taken in by family members, but due to Iraq’s weak economy and high inflation many of those families barely make ends’ meet themselves.
Rape a “Weapon of War” in Eastern Congo
An epidemic of brutal sexual violence plagues the region where women are being raped with impunity. “It’s a strategy of war,” says Justine Masika who works for a Goma-based NGO that helps victims of sexual violence in North Kivu.
